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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Weather
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: backing fires, crown fires, droughts, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire suppression, fire whirls, firebrands, flame length, fuel models, gases, ignition, Michigan, Pinus banksiana, plantations, season of fire, vortices, wildfires, wind
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: aerial ignition, arthropods, backfires, catastrophic fires, community ecology, cones, crown fires, ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (animals), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, firebreaks, fuel accumulation, grasslands, human caused fires, insects, land management, landscape ecology, Montana, national forests, Pinus contorta, plant communities, post fire recovery, precipitation, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, rate of spread, recreation, reproduction, rural communities, senescence, serotiny, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife food habits, wind, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Outreach, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Economics
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies concolor, arthropods, ash, backfires, burning intervals, catastrophic fires, Cervus canadensis, community ecology, computer programs, cones, crown fires, Dendroctonus ponderosae, Dendroica kirtlandii, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, education, fertilizers, fire control, fire equipment, fire frequency, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fire resistant plants, fire sensitive plants, fire suppression, firebreaks, fishes, flammability, flowering, forage, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel types, grasses, grasslands, grazing, ground fires, human caused fires, Idaho, insects, light burning, lightning caused fires, livestock, low intensity burns, Michigan, moisture, Montana, mortality, mosaic, national forests, national parks, natural resource legislation, nongame birds, Odocoileus hemionus, pine forests, pine, Pinus contorta, population density, post fire recovery, precipitation, predators, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, rate of spread, recreation, regeneration, roots, season of fire, Sequoiadendron giganteum , Sialia currucoides, small mammals, smoke behavior, smoke effects, Smokey Bear program, soils, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), surface fires, threatened and endangered species (animals), trees, water, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife food plants, wildlife habitat management, wildlife openings, wind, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
The Objective of this Prescribed Burning Guide: To help resource managers plan and execute prescribed burns in Southern forests by: Explaining the reasons for prescribed burning. · Emphasizing the environmental effectsl · Explaining the importance of weather in prescribed…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Logistics, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aerial ignition, aesthetics, air quality, arthropods, backing fires, competition, erosion, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, firing techniques, flank fires, Florida, forage, fuel moisture, hardwoods, headfires, heat effects, humidity, insects, livestock, manuals, pine forests, plant diseases, plant growth, precipitation, runoff, season of fire, site treatments, smoke management, soil nutrients, soils, temperature, wildlife habitat management, wind
From the text ... 'Prescribed burning is an effective tool but, because of potential hazards, should be conducted only by well-trained, experienced personnel. Each burn is affected by a unique set of stand, fuel and weather conditions and, therefore, requires careful planning.…
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire hazard reduction, fire management, firing techniques, forest management, forest types, Georgia, pine forests, plant diseases, season of fire, smoke management
From the Summary ... 'Control burning activities within Everglades National Park have expanded notably within the last year and a half. Prior to that time such activities were confined strictly to the pinelands habitat of the Park. The control burn program is now being broadened…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, brush, Casuarina equisetifolia, Conocarpus erectus, everglades, experimental fires, field experimental fires, fire adaptations, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, Florida, forbs, forest types, grasses, habitat types, hardwood hammocks, hardwoods, herbaceous vegetation, hydrology, introduced species, invasive species, Laguncularia racemosa, landscape ecology, marshes, national parks, natural areas management, Panicum, peatlands, pine, Pinus elliottii densa, pollution, post fire recovery, prairies, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, Rhizophora mangle, roads, sampling, season of fire, shrubs, soils, south Florida, Spartina, Sporobolus, succession, succulents, swamps, wetlands, wind, woody plants
From the text ... '[A]ttempts to suppress all natural and man caused fires in the sequoia-mixed conifer forest during the past half century or more have resulted in the accumulation of extreme quantitites of dead and living fuels. This buildup has resulted in what has been…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather, Economics, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: Abies concolor, age classes, air quality, anthropology, Arctostaphylos patula, bark, Ceanothus, chaparral, coniferous forests, cover, crown fires, duff, ecosystem dynamics, experimental fires, field experimental fires, fire adaptations, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire regimes, fire resistant plants, fire suppression, firing techniques, forbs, forest management, forest types, fuel accumulation, fuel management, grasses, grasslike plants, habitat types, heat, heavy fuels, herbaceous vegetation, Libocedrus decurrens, litter, livestock, logging, montane forests, mountains, national parks, Native Americans, natural areas management, organic matter, overstory, Pinus lambertiana, Pinus ponderosa, population density, post fire recovery, Quercus kelloggii, recreation, Ribes roezlii, sampling, season of fire, seedlings, seeds, Sequoia, Sequoiadendron giganteum , shrubs, soils, succession, temperature, trees, understory vegetation, vegetation surveys, wildfires
From the text ... 'The ponderosa pine-grassland is characterized by the occurrence and distribution of ponderosa pine, Pinus ponderosa. It is widely spread covering some 36 million acres from the Fraser River Basin in British Columbia to Durango, Mexico, and from Nebraska to the…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Economics, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies concolor, aesthetics, air quality, Andropogon scoparius, Arizona, British Columbia, Calamagrostis rubescens, Canada, Chamaebatia foliolosa, coniferous forests, distribution, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, ecotones, Elymus, European settlement, fire adaptations (plants), fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire resistant plants, fire scar analysis, fire suppression, flammability, forage, forest management, forest types, fuel management, gases, grasses, grasslands, grazing, habitat types, herbaceous vegetation, landscape ecology, livestock, Mexico, Montana, montane forests, Muhlenbergia, multiple resource management, national parks, Native Americans, Nebraska, needles, openings, pine, Pinus ponderosa, pollution, presettlement fires, presettlement vegetation, public information, Purshia tridentata, recreation, regeneration, reproduction, South Dakota, succession, surface fires, understory vegetation, water, wildlife
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aviation, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Logistics, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: aerial ignition, air quality, broadcast burning, coniferous forests, education, fire management, fire suppression, firing techniques, forest products, fuel management, fuel models, Idaho, ignition, litter, Montana, mopping up, prescribed fires (escaped), public information, range management, stand characteristics, statistical analysis, Washington, wildfires, wildlife, wind
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Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Economics
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, backfires, crown fires, fire case histories, fire control, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire protection, firebreaks, flank fires, forage, forest edges, ground fires, headfires, humus, invasive species, land management, landscape ecology, mineral soils, mortality, multiple resource management, pine forests, Pinus taeda, rate of spread, runoff, seedlings, site treatments, smoke effects, smoke management, soil management, spot fires, statistical analysis, surface fires, surface fuels, water, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
From the Executive Summary (p.iv) ... 'A coordinated program of research on the 1988 fires should be intiated immediately. The essential ingredients for such a program include an ecosystem approach to provide conceptual integration and operational coordination of many individual…
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, amphibians, arthropods, bibliographies, catastrophic fires, community ecology, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, education, erosion, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, fishes, forest management, grasslands, hydrology, Idaho, insects, landscape ecology, Lepidoptera, logging, Montana, national forests, national parks, nongame birds, nutrient cycling, pine forests, Pinus contorta, plant communities, public information, range management, recreation, remote sensing, reptiles, runoff, small mammals, soil nutrients, soils, species diversity (plants), streams, succession, threatened and endangered species (animals), US Forest Service, vulnerable species or communities, water, water quality, watersheds, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
Wildland managers in the South use prescribed burning to reduce dangerous fuels, control understory hardwoods, combat disease, facilitate pine regeneration, and improve wildlife habitat. Burning techniques are highly developed, and prescribed burners believe they can use fire…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Weather, Economics, Fuels, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: backfires, competition, education, fire hazard reduction, firing techniques, forest management, hardwoods, headfires, logging, multiple resource management, pine forests, plant diseases, public information, regeneration, season of fire, smoke effects, smoke management, understory vegetation, wilderness fire management, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
The objective of this prescribed burning guide is to help resource managers plan and execute prescribed burns in Southern forests by: explaining the reasons for prescribed burning, emphasizing the environmental effects, explaining the importance of weather in prescribed burning…
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: prescribed fire planning, smoke management, firing techniques, aerial ignition, aesthetics, air quality, arthropods, backing fire, competition, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire weather, flank fires, Florida, forage, fuel moisture, hardwoods, headfires, heat effects, humidity, insects, livestock, manuals, pine forests, plant diseases, plant growth, precipitation, runoff, season of fire, site treatments, soil nutrients, temperature, wildlife habitat management, wind
The increasing use of prescribed fire in forest management and the continuing burning of agricultural crop residues creates problems in air pollution. More information is needed on yields of pollutant gases and particulates and how these emissions might be altered by varying…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies concolor, agriculture, air quality, backfires, broadcast burning, croplands, decay, field experimental fires, fire hazard reduction, firing techniques, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, headfires, hydrocarbons, ignition, laboratory fires, moisture, particulates, Pinus lambertiana, Pinus ponderosa, pollution, sampling, Sequoiadendron giganteum , temperature